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In most cities of the world, traffic is broken.

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To have a perspective on how the future of mobility will look like

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BCG, GAMMA, and the University of St. Gallen

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have engaged in a yearlong study.

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This study resulted in a unique traffic simulation model

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that simulates 1.7 billion daily trips,

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in five different city archetypes,

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ranging from Shanghai to Seattle.

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And covering transport modes as diverse as subways,

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micromobility, and robo-shuttles.

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In general, cities will experience a positive impact

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from the introduction of autonomous mobility

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on many aspects.

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In our simulation, we assessed six central KPIs for cities,

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from traffic volume over fatalities

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to transportation costs per capita,

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and we've seen improvement on all of them.

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Can you imagine that in our best-case scenario,

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a city like New York could free up 900 blocks

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of parking space,

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which equals six further central parks.

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In a city like Los Angeles, for example,

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we could see up to 600,000

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less vehicles on the road every day

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when switching to shared autonomous mobility options.

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This would save about 2.7 million metric tons

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of CO2 emissions, each year, just in LA.

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While not all technological and regulatory obstacles

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have been mastered yet,

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this study shows that autonomous mobility

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can, in fact, be a key contributor

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to a much better traffic situation

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in our cities across the world.

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Given the unique insights of this study,

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it is time to act-now.